Ghana News Agency

Wednesday 28th February, 2018

By
Kodjo Adams, GNA
Accra, Feb. 28, GNA
- Government has rolled out a roadmap for the implementation of a five-year
strategic plan for the country’s Technical and Vocational Education and
Training (TVET).
Mrs Barbara Asher
Ayisi, the Deputy Minister in-charge of Technical and Vocational Education,
said government had constituted reform committees including inter-agency
committee, staff ra

By
Kodjo Adams, GNA

Accra, Feb. 28, GNA
- Government has rolled out a roadmap for the implementation of a five-year
strategic plan for the country’s Technical and Vocational Education and
Training (TVET).

Mrs Barbara Asher
Ayisi, the Deputy Minister in-charge of Technical and Vocational Education,
said government had constituted reform committees including inter-agency
committee, staff rationalisation committee, legislation committee and
conditions of service committee to implement the plan.

She said Cabinet had
approved a five-year strategic plan for TVET with the goal of transforming the
country’s labour force to create employment and enhance productivity.

Cabinet has also
approved the realignment of all technical and vocational institutions to the
Ministry of Education and amendment of legislation for the Council of TVET,
National Vocational Training Institute and the National Board for Professional
and Technical Examinations, she said.

TMrs Ayisi said this in Accra on Wednesday at
a stakeholder’s workshop on the Implementation Plan for TVET Reforms.

She noted that as
part of the roadmap, government had developed a scheme or condition of service
for staff of TVET among other things.

Mrs Ayisi explained
that the staff rationalisation was to collate data of all the staff of the
institutions to realign to the TVET scheme.

She said the
legislation committee was to ensure the completion of draft bills for the
establishment of the TVET and amendment of the Council for TVET Act.

Mrs Ayisi expressed
concern about the perception that technical education was reserved for students
with little academic performance, urging teachers to re-orient that notion and
encouraged students to take up vocational courses.

She said a strong
technical and vocational background would enhance the skills of the country’s
human resource and create job employment for the teeming youth.

Dr Fred Kyei
Asamoah, the Executive Director of TVET, said technical and vocational
institutions had great potential for enhancing the country’s economy, but till
date there was so much left to be done to make the sector viable for economic
growth.

According to him,
the TVET landscape in the country was fragmented with negative implications for
overall system governance, development and coordination for efficiency, quality
and relevance of training.

He said TVET is
confronted with challenges such as poor linkage between training institutions
and industry, multiplicity of standards, testing and certification systems and
poor perception of the profession.

Dr Asamoah said the
realignment of TVET under the Ministry of Education would ensure effective
management, coordination and cohesion in training institutions in the country.